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Pallas's Bunting

Emberiza pallasiOrder: PASSERIFORMES Family: Sparrows (Emberizidae)
Codes: Common Name: PALB Scientific Name: EMBPAL ITIS Taxonomic No.: 179541
Least Concern
 
Pallas's Bunting Breeding Male
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Overview

Pallas's Bunting: Medium bunting, gray-brown upperparts with black streaks. Lower breast, belly, and undertail coverts are white. Head, throat and upper breast are black. Collar and moustache stripe are white. Tail is black with white outer feathers and corners. Black bill, legs, feet.

Range and Habitat

Pallas's Bunting: Native of Asia; recorded on St. Lawrence Island and the western mainland of Alaska. Frequents reed beds in wetlands, lakes, and along streams in taiga and tundra; winters in grasslands and marshlands.

Topo Map: Perching-like Body


Voice Text

"cheep", "tsee-see"

Interesting Facts

 The Pallas's Bunting is named after the German zoologist Peter Simon Pallas.

 A group of buntings are collectively known as a "decoration", "mural", and "sacrifice" of buntings.


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Author

Gary Owen Dick

Artist

Irina Rud-Volga

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Range Map for Pallas's Bunting

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Family Buntings, Finches, Sparrows (Emberizidae)_blue
Species Emberiza pallasi
Length5.5 Inches
Wingspan9 Inches

Pallas's Bunting

Pallas's Bunting: Medium bunting, gray-brown upperparts with black streaks. Lower breast, belly, and undertail coverts are white. Head, throat and upper breast are black. Collar and moustache stripe are white. Tail is black with white outer feathers and corners. Black bill, legs, feet.

● Song: "cheep", "tsee-see"

● Foraging & Feeding: Pallas's Bunting: Eats mainly seeds, especially in winter, but also takes insects; forages on the ground or low in shrubs.

● Breeding & nesting: Pallas's Bunting: Four or five pink eggs with dark spots are laid in a cup nest made of grass and moss, and lined with finer materials. Incubation ranges from 12 to 14 days and is carried out mostly by the female.

● Similar species: Pallas's Bunting: Reed Bunting is larger and has heavier bill, rufous-brown upperparts with black streaks, and rufous-brown wing coverts in winter plumage.

Flight Pattern

Short flights close to vegetation, with rapid wing beats alternating with brief periods of wings pulled to sides.
Pallas's Bunting Breeding Male Body Illustration
● Range & Habitat: Pallas's Bunting: Native of Asia; recorded on St. Lawrence Island and the western mainland of Alaska. Frequents reed beds in wetlands, lakes, and along streams in taiga and tundra; winters in grasslands and marshlands.
BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester
PopulationAccidental in North America
MigrationMigratory
Weight0.4 Ounces
Perching-like BodyX
Undertail covertsX
Small feathers that cover the areas where the retrices (tail feathers) attach to the rump.
UpperpartsX
Back, rump, hindneck, wings, and crown.
BellyX
The ventral part of the bird, or the area between the flanks on each side and the crissum and breast. Flight muscles are located between the belly and the breast.
BreastX
The upper front part of a bird.
CollarX
Similar to the upper part of the human neck, located at the back of the crown.
4 and 6 letter alpha codesX

The four letter common name alpha code is is derived from the first two letters of the common first name and the first two letters of common last name. The six letter species name alpha code is derived from the first three letters of the scientific name (genus) and the first three letters of the scientific name (species). See (1) below for the rules used to create the codes..

Four-letter (for English common names) and six-letter (for scientific names) species alpha codes were developed by Pyle and DeSante (2003, North American Bird-Bander 28:64-79) to reflect A.O.U. taxonomy and nomenclature (A.O.U. 1998) as modified by Supplements 42 (Auk 117:847-858, 2000) and 43 (Auk 119:897-906, 2002). The list has been updated by Pyle and DeSante to reflect changes reported by the A.O.U from 2003 through 2006.

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ITIS CodesX

The Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) was established in the mid-1990�s as a cooperative project among several federal agencies to improve and expand upon taxonomic data (known as the NODC Taxonomic Code) maintained by the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

To find the ITIS page for a bird species go to the ITIS web site advanced search and report page at http://www.itis.gov/advanced_search.html. You can enter the TSN or the common name of the bird. It will return the ITIS page for that bird. Another way to obtain the ITIS page is to use the Google search engine. Enter the string ITIS followed by the taxonomic ID, for example "ITIS 178041" will return the page for the Allen's Hummingbird.

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Parts of a Standing birdX
Head Feathers and MarkingsX
Parts of a Flying birdX